MINGW-packages

Another ^nix -> Windows package system is the pacman port available in msys2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ msys2 has an impressive package list [1] and is almost [2] an amazing solution for mixed-platform projects. [1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages) [2] The one caveat is that it is still susceptible to the Cygwin BLODA problem whereby under certain conditions and software combinations, Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.

Yes, pacman is wonderful. We're very grateful to the Arch Linux devs. You guys are all correct, we've not paid nearly enough attention to marketing. Here's the description I tried to post: MSYS2 is an updated, modern version of MSYS, both of which are Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) forks with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains. We wanted a package management system to provide easy installation of packages, and ported Arch Linux's pacman. This brings many powerful features such as dependency resolution and simple complete system upgrades, as well as providing the build system (makep